Search Results for “fair food” – Page 8 – Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Search Results for: fair food

Coalition of Immokalee Workers > Search results for 'fair food'

TODAY: Call Wendy’s CEO Todd Penegor and demand Wendy’s join the Fair Food Program!

Posted on April 8, 2021May 2, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_33992" align="aligncenter" width="900"] University of Idaho students march through campus to their local Wendy's restaurant on April 1, 2021.[/caption] Make your voice heard by calling Wendy's corporate headquarters at 614-764-3100 to demand respect for farmworkers' health and safety! The "Demanding Dignity for Farmworkers" Week of Action is underway and off to a great start, with action reports from across >> Read More

Oxfam Great Britain: Fair Food Program a “Signpost for Good Practice”

Posted on February 4, 2021May 2, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_31652" align="aligncenter" width="800"] The CIW worker-to-worker education team discusses the Fair Food Program's protections against sexual harassment on a participating farm in 2019.[/caption] “The Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program was the most widely cited example when Oxfam asked 23 experts about effective ways for workers to represent themselves.” Meanwhile, Wendy's seeks a new Director of Corporate Social >> Read More

Breaking: Takoma Park Silver Spring Co-Op is the Next Fair Food Sponsor!

Posted on February 1, 2021May 2, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

We're thrilled to announce that our next Fair Food Sponsor is the Takoma Park Silver Spring Co-Op! See our official joint announcement below: Takoma Park Silver Spring Co-Op to become Maryland’s first Fair Food Sponsor, marking landmark commitment to farmworkers’ human rights The beloved neighborhood institution will support CIW’s Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program, which combats forced labor, >> Read More

Largest cut flower farm on US East Coast joins the Fair Food Program!

Posted on August 17, 2020May 2, 2021 by CIW

photos via Bloomia.com Bloomia -- international leader in the cut flower industry with farms on four continents -- brings its US greenhouse operations in King George, Virginia, into the expanding Fair Food Program... Just last week we shared news of the Fair Food Program's expansion into a new state, as we welcomed Smoky Mountain Family Farms of Tennessee into the >> Read More

Fair Food Program expansion marches on, even in these difficult times!

Posted on July 31, 2020December 6, 2020 by CIW

Award-winning Fair Food Program breaks ground in Tennessee alongside longtime partner Sunripe Certified Brands and new FFP Participating Grower, Smoky Mountain Family Farms... Even in these dark and difficult times, the Fair Food Program continues to inspire and transform lives for the better. First came the publication last week of an unprecedented, decade-long study carried out by MSI Integrity, the >> Read More

Sustain Fair Food: We need your help to sustain our call for urgently-needed protections for farmworkers…

Posted on June 17, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Dear friends, Over the past three months, the CIW, working hand in hand with the Alliance for Fair Food, has shaped the national conversation on the critical role of farmworkers as vulnerable essential workers. Through national outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and the Associated Press, the voice of Immokalee’s farmworker community has rung out from >> Read More

THIS WEEK: Take to social media to urge Wendy’s top investors to leverage their power to bring the fast food giant into the Fair Food Program!

Posted on March 9, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_28850" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Farmworker women lead the "How Much Longer, Wendy's?" March through Manhattan.[/caption] We need YOU to help flood social media with the urgent call for Wendy’s investors Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Wells Fargo, and BNY Mellon to make their commitment to socially responsible investing real! Last week, farmworkers in Immokalee made the difficult decision to postpone the highly-anticipated >> Read More

Iconic Time Magazine Special Issue on legacy of Civil Rights Movement features CIW, Fair Food Program!…

Posted on February 21, 2020October 15, 2020 by CIW

CIW's Fair Food Movement featured among "People and Groups Fighting for a More Equal America" in sweeping Time Magazine special issue out this week including essays and interviews with Rep. John Lewis, Bryan Stevenson, Annette Gordon-Reed, Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, and Rev. William J. Barber... In a deeply moving special issue on newsstands this week -- an issue >> Read More

Faith leaders across New York City declare support for NYC Council resolution calling on Wendy’s to join the Fair Food Program!…

Posted on February 19, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Momentum is growing in NYC ahead of next month's big march, as thirty New York City clergy, seminary presidents, professors and religious leaders release public letter of support for NYC Council Resolution 1156… Big news out of the Big Apple! As the buzz around the CIW’s upcoming Follow the Money March begins to reverberate throughout the bustling boroughs of New York >> Read More

National Farm Worker Ministry board leaders visit Immokalee, talk Wendy’s Boycott, Fair Food Program…

Posted on February 18, 2020October 15, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_31475" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Fair Food Program Education Team members Oscar Otzoy and Nely Rodriguez demonstrate the use of a Popular Education drawing for visiting National Farm Worker Ministry board members in Immokalee. The drawing is used to elicit discussion on discrimination in the workplace during worker-to-worker education sessions on Fair Food Program farms.[/caption] Faith leaders promise to join farmworkers >> Read More